Will there still be wood for my stove?

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As more power stations are converted to biomass, owners of wood-burning stoves are seeing the price of wood soar

Sir, One effect that the building of biomass power stations is having is to
drive up the price of firewood for those of us who have installed
wood-burning stoves (letters, Nov
20 and 21).
As more power stations are converted to biomass they will buy up more and
more of the local wood. Its availability will diminish and presumably its
cost will rise to match the inevitably high price of imported material.

Those of us with stoves know that we save oil and gas directly, but also
indirectly keep ourselves warm and fit by chopping and splitting the wood